From 9ef56526bc2db68c57f2c9d43b84b5a7a5d166ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Tammi L. Coles" Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 14:15:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] improve text re version 4 and its implementations --- book/source/02-highlevel.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/book/source/02-highlevel.md b/book/source/02-highlevel.md index 2762efe..dbca060 100644 --- a/book/source/02-highlevel.md +++ b/book/source/02-highlevel.md @@ -55,16 +55,16 @@ Heiko, I do not believe the above section on the binary needs to be in this hist ### OpenPGP version 4 -In 2007, [RFC 4880](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880), defining version 4 of OpenPGP, was published. This version is currently most commonly used in the wild. +In 2007, the IETF published [RFC 4880](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880), which defined version 4 of the OpenPGP standard. At this time, version 4 is the most commonly used version. + -(major_implementations)= ### Multiple major implementations -Today multiple new Free Software implementations of OpenPGP play important roles: +Today, multiple implementations of OpenPGP play important roles: -- Proton Mail, who provide email encryption services for a large number of users, use (and maintain) [OpenPGP.js](https://openpgpjs.org/) as well as [GopenPGP](https://gopenpgp.org/). -- The Thunderbird email software is using the [RNP](https://www.rnpgp.org/) implementation for their built-in OpenPGP support since version 78 (released in mid-2020). -- The RPM Package Manager software includes an OpenPGP backend based on [Sequoia PGP](https://sequoia-pgp.org/), a modern OpenPGP implementation in Rust. Fedora [uses Sequoia PGP in rpm](https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2023/04/27/rpm-sequoia/) since version 38. +- Proton Mail, which provides email encryption services for a large number of users, uses and maintains [OpenPGP.js](https://openpgpjs.org/) as well as [GopenPGP](https://gopenpgp.org/), an OpenPGP wrapper library written in golang. +- The Mozilla Thunderbird email software uses [RNP](https://www.rnpgp.org/), its C++ implementation of OpenPGP. +- The RPM Package Manager software includes an OpenPGP backend based on [Sequoia PGP](https://sequoia-pgp.org/), a modern OpenPGP implementation written in Rust. The Fedora operating system, Fedora Linux 38, [uses Sequoia PGP in rpm](https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2023/04/27/rpm-sequoia/). ## The road ahead